Great Boom in Trade and Rail Congestion Across Regions
New York trade review notes active markets despite holidays and warm weather while rail congestion cripples grain coal and cotton movements. Iron and steel demand rises with pig iron and copper prices advancing, wool and textiles show strength with forward buying. Weather and labor issues persist as exports in wheat corn and other commodities trend higher despite occasional delays.
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New York
Bradstreet
Kampera
Chicago
Pittsburg
Boston
Lectures and probate notices in the city
Seumar WacManus and Rev Timothy Brosenhan announce lectures at Holy Crows Academy and Gonzaga Hall. Probate matters include wills of William Hall Stephen Kane Martha Wax and unrelated organ dedication at Memorial Church. A hearing is sought over a $3500 auto garage permit at 643 Maryland avenue NE.
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Seumar WacManus
Holy Crows Academy
Massachusett Avenue
Willam B Hall
Ann E Hall
Stephen Kane
Mra Ollen Kyne
Martha
Alutera
Catherine D Aix
Ella
Mix) Harre
Matthena
Timothy Brosenhan SJ
Gonzaga Hall
North Capitol
K Streets
Aloysius Club
Atholls
University of Music and Dramatic Art
S. Street Northwest
Mira Edith PleLering Aapraap
Yan A Potter Barytone
New York
Memorial Church of the United Arathran
Chiist
Mina Lita J Mekiath
Sexmon
J . Milla
United Brethren Church
CE Myers
Allding
Ashford
Cauce
Maryland Avenue
Tap
Visible Cotton Supply Report from New Orleans
Secretary Hester releases the visible cotton supply figures showing total supply at 205.99 million units versus 408.596 million last week. American cotton totals reach 449.596 million against 3.260,335 one week prior and 3.795.697 last year. Other varieties including Egypt, Brazil, and India total 1.0 million versus 776,000 last week and 884,000 last year. World totals show 2,050,000 afloat or held in Britain and continental Europe versus 2,100,000 last year, 186,000 in Egypt versus 161,900, 343,000 in another region versus 449,000, and 1,715,000 in the United States versus 1,968,000 last year.
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New Orleans
Hester
Egypt
Brazil
India
Great Britain
Europe
Tale
United States
Strike Ties Up Sonora Railroad Extension
Tucson reports the Sonora Railroad extension from Nogales to Guaymas is shut down by a strike aimed at securing Engineer Jesse M. Reltz’s release. Reltz is jailed in Hermosillo for manslaughter after fatally striking a Yaqui Indian on the track. American Consul Brickwood and Vice Consul Hostetter seek relief, with representations sent to Washington and Mexico City.
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Tucson
Arid
Sonora
Southern Pacific
Nogales
Ariz
Guaymag
Brickwood
Hostetter
Hermostilo
Washington
Mexico
Iron boom at Glasgow rocks market ranks
Glasgow November 30 American and German buyers pressed for pig iron driving prices higher. Cleveland Iron gained 2 shillings and threepence per ton while hematite advanced one shilling. Fifty thousand tons traded as American buyers secured all available iron at seller prices and Germans contracted to mid summer. Export boom rivals best in years.
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Glasgow
Cleveland
Fron
Heinze Gives $100000 Toward Aetna Debts From Copper King
F A Heinze former Aetna Bank president of Butte Mont contributing 100000 toward the failed bank's debts. He believes many depositors were misled by his former association with the institution and hopes to restore confidence. Treasury officials had received no official notice by close of business yesterday.
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F. Augustus Heinze
Aetna Banking and Trust Company
Butte
Mont
Wilson
Aetna Bani
Cop
Associated Press
Buite
Treasury
Heinze
Aetna Bank
Hotze
Lit 15
Ridgely
Interstate Commerce Commission Hears Lackawanna Oil Deliveries
The Interstate Commerce Commission began a hearing in New York to compel Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad to justify why it should not deliver oil to Brooklyn wholesale dealers. Complainants Preston and Davis accuse the railroad of stopping tank car deliveries due to an alleged agreement with rivals. Witnesses cited fire risks, price pressures from Standard Oil, and shifts to independent suppliers. The hearing will continue.
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New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
Brooklyn
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Preston & Davis
Wallabout
Preston & Davis Company
P J. Flynn
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Standard OM
Supt. Ketcham
Mehlen
Pice of Oil
Teo
Standard Oil Company
Galapagos Expedition Returns With 75000 Specimens
The schooner Academy reached San Francisco with scientists who spent seventeen months on the Galapagos Islands gathering fauna and flora. The new collection totals 75,000 specimens including fourteen Galapagos giant tortoises, the largest in the world, led by ornithologist KR Beck.
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San Francisco
Schooner Academy
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos
KR Beck
Charee
Control Local Banks Foreign Corporations Here
Comptroller Ridgely urges Congress to pass criminal banking laws and rejects state charter banks in the District of Columbia. He seeks federal oversight of foreign charter banks, proposes an act to regulate such institutions, and notes past gaps in supervision before 1906 reforms.
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Comptroller of
Just Currency
Ridgely
Whch
Congress
Cantalog
District of Columbia
Senate
House
Board of Commissioners
Comptroller
National Leaks
Trust
Virginia
West Virginia
Connecticut
Aetna Banking and Trust Company
People's Savings Bank
District banking code proposal seeks to regulate nonresident institutions
A proposed act would require existing District banks operating under outside charters to reincorporate or cease business within a stated time. Comptroller Ridgely also urges amending the District code to criminalize offenses against banking institutions similarly to offenses against national banks, with enforcement beginning March 3, 1i.
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Ridgely
Pardons Issued To Testify Against Ruef and Schmitz
Sacramento Nov 20 Gov Pardes pardoned ballot box stuffer Steffins and Wyman atAttorney Henrys request so they can testify against Abraham Ruef and Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco. They had been sentenced to five years for stuffing ballots at local primaries before the last mayoral election. Ruef gained county GOP control through that primary and graft prosecutions grew from charges that election officials Steffins and Wyman stuffed ballots for delegates.
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Ruef
Schmitz
Sacramento
Cal
Henry
Pardes
Steffing
Wyman
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
Steffins
Abe Ruef
Lawler
Manila Road Rebuild Plan by Speyer Syndicate Formed
London reports the Speyer syndicate led by Speyer Brothers and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank completed a plan to reconstruct the Manila Railway Company and extend lines. The capital of 25,000,000 dollars was subscribed.
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Speyer Syndicate
London
Speyer ®& Co
New York
Speyer Brothers
Hongkong and Shanshai Bank
Manila
Iss Ines
Season ends as Army Navy meet headlines football year
The 1906 football season closes with the Army Navy game viewed as the year’s peak event by officials. The Washington Post previews the big game with special correspondents and features on racing, steamboat gambling tales, Roseben the racehorse saga, and a parade of Sunday post sports stories.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Washington Post
Post
New Orleans
Mississippi
Sunday Post
Roseben
Frank A. Vanderlip
New York
Franklin Fyles
The
H. C. Chatfield-Taylor
Boston
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Seventh Street
Cut-Prise
Hunter Trimble Wilson
Green River Cascade
Oscar Pepper
James E. Pepper
Roxbury Sherwood
Atherton
Thos. Moore
Duffy
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Letha
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Overholt
Belle Anderson
Jamaica
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Robert Burns
Black Raven
Regensburgs
Manila Road
Melton
Goodyear Rubber Co
Haincostes
Mackintoshes A
Vanton Aba
Adler
Garland
Denys Ae
Friedlander
E Street
van Vieck
ABS
Majestic Building
Jackson
Rich
Washington, D.C
Michigan
J. Wesley Bennett
Indianapolis
Ind
W. F. Bogguss
W. Élst St
J. Holz
Magic Foot Draft Co.Dept. Abms
Jackson, Mich
Magic
Maud Muller
George Ade
Albert Levering
the Stock Exchange
Washington Stock Exchange
Big Sunday Post
Eugene Field
Field
Frank Verbeck
Mississippi River
Ben Strome
Santo Domingo
Tomorrow’s Sunday Post
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